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LITERARY  LIGHTS 

A  BOOK  OF  CARICATURES 


SOME  BORZOI  BOOKS 


FINDERS  by  John  V.  A.  Weaver 
POEMS  by  Wilfrid  Scausen  Blunt 
INTO  THE  DARK  by  Barbra  Rine 
GOLDEN  BIRD  by  James  Oppenheim 
THE  ROVING  CRITIC  by  Carl  Van  Daren 
FOX  FOOTPRINTS  by  Elizabeth  J.  Coats-worth 
YOUR  HIDDEN  POWERS  by  James  Oppenheim 
A  LINE  O’  GOWF  OR  TWO  by  Bert  Lesion  Taylor 
THE  WORLD  IN  FALSEFACE  by  Georee  Jean  Nathan 


LITERARY  LIGHTS 

A  BOOK  OF  CARICATURES 


by 

GENE  MARKEY 


NEW  YORK 

ALFRED  •  A  •  KNOPF 

1923 


COPYRIGHT,  1923,  BY  ALFRED  A.  KNOPF,  INC. 


Published ,  March ,  1928 


Plates  engraved  by  the  Aetna  Photoengraving  Co.,  New  York 
Printed  by  the  Vail- Ballou  Co.,  Binghamton,  N.  Y .,  on  Warren's  paper 
Bound  by  the  H.  Wolff  Estate,  New  York. 


MANUFACTURED  IN  THE  UNITED  STATES  OF  AMERICA 


To 

MY  MOTHER 


CONTENTS 


1.  Hamlin  Garland 

2.  Joseph  Hergesheimer 

3.  Sherwood  Anderson 

4.  Henry  Kitchell  Webster 

5.  John  Dos  Passos  and  F.  Scott  Fitzgerald 

6.  Christopher  Morley 

7.  Carl  Sandburg 

8.  Theodore  Dreiser  and  E.  Phillips  Oppenheim 

9.  Edgar  Lee  Masters 

10.  Donald  Ogden  Stewart  and  Louis  Untermeyer 

1 1.  Don  Marquis 

12.  Zane  Grey,  Emerson  Hough  and  Philip  Ashton  Rollins 

13.  Ben  Hecht 

14.  Heywood  Broun 

15.  Charles  Hanson  Towne 

1 6.  John  V.  A.  Weaver  and  John  Farrar 

17.  Robert  Cortes  Holliday 

18.  H.  L.  Mencken  and  Hugh  Walpole 

19.  William  Allen  White 

20.  Ernest  Boyd 

21.  Keith  Preston,  Richard  Henry  Little  and  Richard  At¬ 

water  (“Riq.”) 

22.  Henry  Sell 


23.  Harrison  Rhodes 

24.  Maxwell  Bodenheim  and  Edgar  A.  Guest 

25.  Harry  Hansen 

26.  Burton  Rascoe 

27.  Llewellyn  Jones 

28.  The  Brothers  Benet 

29.  Karl  Edwin  Harriman 

30.  James  Branch  Cabell 

31.  F.  P.  A. 

32.  Carl  Van  Vechten 

33.  Hendrik  Van  Loon 

34.  Vincent  Starrett 

35.  A.  Edward  Newton 

36.  Alexander  Woollcott,  Percy  Hammond  and  Robert  C. 

Benchley 

37.  Charles  Collins,  Ashton  Stevens  and  O.  L.  Hall 

38.  George  Jean  Nathan 

39.  Thomas  Beer  and  Dr.  Frank  Crane 

40.  H.  L.  Mencken 

41.  Sinclair  Lewis 

42.  Prof.  William  Lyon  Phelps 

43.  Keith  Preston  and  Petronius 

44.  John  Drew 

45.  John  Peale  Bishop  and  Edmund  Wilson,  Jr. 

46.  Booth  Tarkington 

47.  Achmed  Abdullah  and  Edwin  Balmer 

48.  Frederick  O’Brien 

49.  Carl  Sandburg  and  J.  C.  Squire 

50.  Prof.  Stuart  P.  Sherman 


LITERARY  LIGHTS 

A  BOOK  OF  CARICATURES 


Hamlin  Garland,  crowned  by  the  Academie  Americaine. 


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JOSEPH  HERGESHEIMER 

The  author  of  Cytherea  (according  to  a  reviewer  in  Jonesville, 
Arkansas)  considers  two  pronounced  literary  influences. 


Sherwood  Anderson  wondering  if  the  report  be  true  that  he  is 
a  greater  realist  than  Zola. 


Henry  Kitchell  Webster,  getting  ready  for 
a  hard  night  at  the  Opera. 


LES  ENFANTS  TERRIBLES 

John  Dos  Passos  and  F.  Scott  Fitzgerald 


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Christopher  Morley  about  to  write  an  Essay. 


Carl  Sandburg  calls  upon  The  Poetry  Society  of  America. 


TWO  GREAT  REALISTS 
Theodore  Dreiser  and  E.  Phillips  Oppenheim 


Edgar  Lee  Masters,  at  mention  of  Chicago  as  a  literary 
capital,  contemplates  flight  to  Italy. 


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Don  Marquis  composing  a  Sonnet. 


Zane  Grey,  Emerson  Hough  and  Philip  Ashton  Rollins 
discuss  western  fiction. 


Ben  Hecht  and  some  of  the  characters  in  Erik  Dorn. 


Heywood  Broun,  blighting  an  entire  crop  of  spring  novels. 


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One  of  the  characters  in  Charles  Hanson  Towne’s  novel. 


Johnny  Weaver  conferring  upon  Johnny  Farrar 
the  Order  of  the  Brooklyn  Eagle. 


Robert  Cortes  Holliday  and  his  famous  Walking-Stick. 


AN  INVITATION 

Hugh  Walpole  invites  Mr.  Mencken  to  England. 


THE  SAGE  OF  KANSAS 

William  Allen  White 


Ernest  Boyd  and  the  Master. 


THREE  CHICAGO  COLUMNISTS 

Keith  Preston,  Richard  Henry  Little  and  Richard  Atwater  (“Riq’ 


Henry  Sell  enters  the  Ritz. 


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Harrison  Rhodes  takes  the  air  in  Venice. 


IMAGINARY  CONVERSATIONS 
Maxwell  Bodenheim  and  Edgar  A.  Guest. 


Harry  Hansen  glances  over  a  publisher’s  list. 


Burton  Rascoe  looks  with  favor  upon  a  Manuscript. 


Llewellyn  Jones  contemplates  a  four-column  article, 
annihilating  a  group  of  New  England  Poets. 


The  Brothers  Benet  read  to  each  other 
from  their  own  Works. 


KARL  EDWIN  HARRIMAN 

The  Editor  of  The  Red  Book  in  the  West  on  a  hunting  trip 
— hunting  for  Western  Stories. 


JAMES  BRANCH  CABELI, 


F.  P.  A. 


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Carl  Van  Vechten  plans  another  book. 


Hendrik  Willem  Van  Loon  wakes  up  to  find  himself  famous. 


AN  EMINENT  VICTORIAN 
Vincent  Starrett:  “What  is  the  wild  Wave  saying?” 


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AN  EMINENT  JOHNSONIAN 
A.  Edward  Newton,  Esq. 


THREE  CHICAGO  DRAMATIC  CRITICS 
Charles  Collins,  Ashton  Stevens  and  O.  L.  Hall. 


Mr.  Nathan  goes  to  the  play. 


IMAGINARY  CONVERSATIONS 

Dr.  Frank  Crane  and  Thomas  Beer. 


H.  L.  Mencken  trying  to  think  of  more  things  that  annoy  him. 


Sinclair  Lewis  returns  from  England. 


Prof.  William  Lyon  Phelps,  in  an  un-academic  moment,  strolls 
homeward  with  an  eclectic  assortment  of  autumn  novels. 


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Keith  Preston  cracks  a  quip  with  the  Shade  of  Petronius. 


John  Drew  brings  forth  his  Memoirs. 


John  Peale  Bishop  and  Edmund  Wilson,  Jr. 
bring  forth  The  Undertaker’s  Garland. 


MR.  TARKINGTON 


COSMOPOLITAN 

Achmed  Abdullah  and  Edwin  Balmer. 


Frederick  O’Brien  contemplates  the  86th  volume  of 
his  chaste  adventures  in  the  South  Seas. 


T.  C.  Squire  and  Care  Sandhurg  revive  the 
ancient  Whistler-Ruskin  Controversy. 


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Prof.  Stuart  P.  Sherman  meditates  upon  the 
shocking  state  of  American  Letters. 


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